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<refentry xml:id="function.com-create-guid" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
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  <refname>com_create_guid</refname>
  <refpurpose>Generate a globally unique identifier (GUID)</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>com_create_guid</methodname>
   <void/>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).
  </para>
  <para>
   A GUID is generated in the same way as DCE UUID's, except that the
   Microsoft convention is to enclose a GUID in curly braces.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
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  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the GUID as a string.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>uuid_create</function> in the PECL uuid extension</member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>

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